pytest Contract Job Trends in Essex

pytest
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.80% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
East of England median daily rate £350 £427 -
% change year-on-year -18.03% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

pytest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6 18 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 5.41% 19.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 40
10th Percentile - £213 £300
25th Percentile £300 £272 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £317 £485
Median % change year-on-year +34.28% -34.74% -3.96%
75th Percentile - £320 £550
90th Percentile £475 £324 £600
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +22.22% -9.09% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £41.74
25th Percentile - - £43.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.05%
75th Percentile - - £55.50
90th Percentile - - £55.54
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £55.53
% change year-on-year -3.70% +21.56% -15.22%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing pytest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

pytest job vacancy trend in Essex

pytest
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Essex region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 2 £300 -
pytest
East of England

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UAT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian